Super-sized American customers and online ranges that are constantly being updated have helped sales at plus-sized retailer N Brown top City forecasts for the past 17 weeks.

The group behind Simply Be, High & Mighty, and Figleaves – whose summer campaign is fronted by Wimbledon tennis ace Novak Djokovic‘s model girlfriend Jelena Ristic – used its annual meeting to post a 7.8 per cent rise in underlying sales as it expanded into America with its Marisota and Jacamo sites.